Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I, filled with the hope of life in a new land. Within two generations, these newcomers settled and prospered in the densely populated Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods of New York City. Against this backdrop, Ruth Gay narrates their rarely told story-a unique and vibrant portrait of a people in their daily trials and rituals-bringing alive the vitality of the streets, markets, schools, synagogues, and tenement halls where a ...
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Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I, filled with the hope of life in a new land. Within two generations, these newcomers settled and prospered in the densely populated Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods of New York City. Against this backdrop, Ruth Gay narrates their rarely told story-a unique and vibrant portrait of a people in their daily trials and rituals-bringing alive the vitality of the streets, markets, schools, synagogues, and tenement halls where a new version of America was invented in the 1920s and 1930s. An intimate, unforgettable account, Unfinished People is a singular act of expressing in words the richly textured lives of a resilient people. "A touching and funny evocation...marvelous in its detail.... This is history as day-to-day living-irrevocable and unforgotten."-Alfred Kazin
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Trade Paperback in Good Condition, Clean, unmarked, gently used book, with lower corner of the cover front and around back scuffed off. Part social history and part memoir, of immigrant Jewish life in the early 20th century in New York. During this time, between 1880 and the outbreak of World War i in 1914, nearly 3 million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe, to escape all sorts of atrocities, and to bring to New York the vitality of the streets, of schools, markets, synagogues, and tenement halls, and their energy and many-faceted talents and gifts. 310 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2001, W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London.
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